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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫsъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *vǫsъ < *vǫdsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wánsa, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰsom, s-expansion of root *wendʰ- (“hair, wool, beard”).

Noun

*ǫ̃sъ m[1]

  1. hair of a moustache
  2. (in the plural) moustache

Declension
Declension of *ǫ̃sъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *ǫ̃sъ *ǭsà *ǭsì
Accusative *ǫ̃sъ *ǭsà *ǭsỳ
Genitive *ǭsà *ǭsù *ǫ̃sъ
Locative *ǭsě̀ *ǭsù *ǫ̃sěxъ
Dative *ǭsù *ǭsòma *ǭsòmъ
Instrumental *ǭsъ̀mь, *ǭsòmь* *ǭsòma *ǫ̃sy
Vocative *ǫse *ǭsà *ǭsì
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *ǫsiti (“to sulk”)
  • *ǫsěnica (“caterpillar”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: вус (vus), ву́сы (vúsy)
    • Russian: ус (us), усы́ (usý)
    • Ukrainian: вус (vus)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: въс (vǎs)
    • Macedonian:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Unspecified:
      Unspecified:
    • Slovene: vǫs, vosi
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ǫ́sъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386
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